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Bangladesh’s Indo-Pacific Outlook: Has Dhaka ‘Tilted Towards the West’?
Analysts have increasingly touted the strategic importance of the Indian Ocean Region, calling the 21st century a maritime century and the 'Indo-Pacific era.' Devising Indo-Pacific strategies has become a standard policy practice, first introduced by the United States and later by its allies and…
Maldives’ Chagos Conundrum: Continuing Inconsistency and its Politicization
On October 17, 2022, the International Tribunal For the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) began hearing the dispute over the overlapping Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ) between Mauritius and the Maldives. During the proceedings, the Maldives revealed its new position of recognizing Mauritius’ sovereignty…
Chagos Islands and the Struggle for Global Britain
An estimated 119 Tamils are currently in detention on a secretive British military base on Diego Garcia, the largest island of the Chagos Archipelago, situated northeast of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. Of those, 89 have been there since late…
The UK-India Partnership and Britain’s Indo-Pacific Tilt
In March 2021, the UK Government published the Integrated Review (IR) of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy, a landmark policy document defining Britain’s international role in the aftermath of the UK’s departure from the European Union. This is the…